“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • TwilightVulpine
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    11 year ago

    You are mixing having your own physical copy with needing to run games straight from the disk. Nevermind that there’s no reason that games couldn’t be sold on faster cartridges, you can still have a physical media that can install a game into the console. Offline, without relying on an online service that will inevitably close eventually.

    As it is, with disks and cartridges, they can’t make it so absolutely every game must check with their online services. They have to make sure grandma in the boonies can make little Timmy’s game work right out of the box. Without them, there’s nothing stopping them. They could even straight up say that “no game could be expected to last more than 10 years”, and I see enough people that already seem ready to fall for that. Nevermind that to this day there’s people playing the nearly 40 year old Super Mario Bros.

    • w2tpmf
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      11 year ago

      They have to make sure grandma in the boonies can make little Timmy’s game work right out of the box.

      …and yet, most AAA games cannot do this, and require you to go online and download the game assets after you put the disk in the console.

      • TwilightVulpine
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        1 year ago

        I literally just replied to you about this and I don’t know where you are getting it from. Games may ask for updates but games that are unplayable without downloads are very much the exception.